ten-o'clock

Definitions

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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A plant, the star-of-Bethlehem. See under star.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The common starof-Bethlehem, Ornithogalum umbellatum: so called from the tardy opening of the flowers. Compare four-o'clock.

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Examples

That is, I have adopted this attitude until ten-o'clock Monday night when I panic and start to cram everthing I can find into the interstices of my already crammed luggage... but for now my confidence feels good.

The story wasn't through playing out in videotape and words breathlessly spoken by a wide-eyed field reporter on the ten-o'clock news, posing outside the ratty soundstage, whose walls were decorated in Technicolor tagging full of gang signs, sexual bragging, and a gallery of misspelled words in two languages, when I pulled over the phone and auto-dialed.

Before leaving the summit we held a conversation with the aged priest through an interpreter, and, retracing our steps, drove to the rest house for a ten-o'clock breakfast made up of coffee and rolls; then, returning to our temporary home in Anuradhapura, we pronounced the morning's excursion a success.